Up to 40 percent of infants who do not pass the newborn hearing screen are lost to follow-up and never receive a diagnostic evaluation. But the use of tele-audiology technologies can improve follow-up evaluation rates by making it easier for families to access services.

These findings are included in "Tele-audiology improves access to diagnostic hearing evaluations for infants," a health IT trend story, which was published in the February 2014 issue of AAP News, the official news magazine of the American Academy of Pediatrics.